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There’s a place that we can be inside of ourselves, inside of the universe, in which which we can appreciate the delight in life. Where we can still have equanimity, and quality of presence, and the quietness of peace.

Just imagine a mandala or a flower and think about the center of the flower and then all the petals that come out from the center and think of the center of the flower as absolutely still, and think of all of the petals as moving, and energy, and change, but the center is still.

Where is your center?

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Via Daily Dharama / November 15, 2016: Naming Thoughts as Thoughts

If you know a view as a view, you can be free of that view. If you know a thought as a thought, you can be free of that thought. —Norman Fischer, "Beyond Language"

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Via Daily Dharma / November 14, 2016: A New Consciousness in Every Moment

The mind that sees something quickly dies, and a different consciousness hears a sound. No self or soul carries over from one perceptual act to the next. In truth, your life-span is only one moment long.

—Cynthia Thatcher, "Disconnect the Dots"

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The game of powers is always very simple: Don’t use them. The minute you get a power and say, “I’ve got this power, I will use it,” you’re stuck again. A new attachment, a new ego trip. Don’t use them, rather let them be used through you.

Purity brings powers. Unfortunately, that’s one of the lions at the gate that brings you incredible powers. The minute you’re a little less attached than everybody else, you have incredible power over everybody, because you don’t want anything that everybody else wants so much. The minute you don’t want so much, suddenly you’re free, in a way that you can’t believe because you’re so used to being trapped in this network of needs and desires.

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Via Daily Dharma / November 13, 2016: A Completely Useless Buddha

In the very act of sitting, we actualize the completeness of the act itself and we actualize our own full completeness as a useless human being, another name for which is Buddha.

—Barry Magid, "Uselessness"

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Via Daily Dharma / November 12, 2016: The Speechless Center

The only parts of the practice that can be described with confidence are the rough, cerebral edges. What happens at the center, when the mind quiets down, is impossible to verbalize.

—Jeff Greenwald, "The Great Indoors"